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Top 10 Essential Bike Handling Skills, Part 2

In Part 1 of this post, I offered some advice regarding a few ways to improve your ability to handle your bike while riding all by your lonesome. As promised, this week I’ll offer a few suggestions regarding riding well, i.e. more efficiently, more enjoyably, more safely; while riding with any number of other riders whether…

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Top 10 Essential Bike Handling Skills, Part 1

I am doubtlessly amongst the staunchest proponents of indoor cycling and its advantages over outdoor training, but consequently I’m also routinely faced with the annual terrorfest that is my first, fast outdoor group ride following any extended indoor riding block. Necessarily, I’ve intentionally diminished this fear component by forcing myself outdoors more frequently – at…

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Post-Race Analysis: Tour de Nez

I recently read an article by Eric Kenney titled “How to Get the Most Out of a Training Race” and I really appreciated the simple & very useful advice Eric offered when it comes to making the most out of lower-priority events. So much so that I kept each of his 3 points in mind…

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Echelon Riding 101 – An Intro to Riding in the Wind

Regardless of which type of riding occupies your leisure time – and I’m assuming your time on the bike is mostly leisure time otherwise you’re a pro rider and unlikely to learn anything from this post you haven’t already been directly exposed to – learning how to best draft fellow riders is not only useful…

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Consistency: Only Part of the Solution

Consistency is the mother of mastery, and if I knew who was responsible for this nugget of wisdom, I’d give due credit. Or maybe it’s simply an observation put forth in its simplest terms. In any case, it’s as germane to the technical aspects of cycling as the non-technical, comparatively straightforward fitness gains we strive…

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